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Unseelie by Ivelisse Housman
2.0

Twins Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove and Isolde are on the run, forced to become thieves to survive. Iselia is almost exactly like her sister... except that she is an autistic changeling left in the hhuman world by the fae as an instant. She has magic she cant control and has to deal with her emotions that spiral. When both girls end up on a hunt for fabled treasure, their heist goes horribly wrong and now they are forced to team up with a mysterious healer and an aggravating shifter who have much more at stake than either realized. Force on the run to find the treasure while running from the owner of the compass they stole, Seelie will have to learn to control her magic before it’s too late and she ends up hurting someone else. This is the first book in a duology and while it started off interesting it unfortunately fell off for me the more we got into the book. There seems to be an actual lack of movement in the story and you can definitely feel that this is the first book in the story. The majority of the book is spent with Seelie arguing with Raze, the hawk shifter who gets under her skin but they both might have a very very LIGHT romantic hinting at while also avoiding to try and learn magic and dealing with her emotions, guilt, and spiraling of the pressures of the journey. I love that we got an autistic main character and always appreciate more representation. My only issue was that I didn’t end up caring that much for any of the characters or their actual journey because it felt like it dragged on and there wasn’t much happening. Overall, this one just didn’t work for me but definitely give it a go if you are looking for a book with character representation.

*Thanks Netgalley and Inkyard Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*